As it should be. Having your team in the Super Bowl should never get old regardless how many times they’ve been there.

Besides, winning the AFC championship game with a fourth quarter comeback after many fans thought we would lose helps the excitement level.

This is the stuff that gets the blood circulating.

Two other factors help keep the Super Bowl from getting old for Pats fans.

The first is not knowing how much longer the Patriots will be this good. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick seem immortal, but come with an expiration date. We’re just not sure what it is.

The second factor is that the Pats have lost big games before. They could lose again next week.

It’s sports, anything can happen. It’s why we watch.

So with only a week to go before Super Bowl LII (pronounced el, eye, eye), it’s time for Patriots fans to get serious and start preparing for the game.

Start by forgetting everything that happened in the AFC Championship game. You had a week to celebrate it, read about it, talk about it, relive it in your dreams and have a likeness of Danny Amendola tattooed on your bicep.

We are done with that game. The Patriots land in Minneapolis tomorrow, kicking off Super Bowl week.

That’s a week of preparation and hype. We need to cut through that hype and focus on what’s important come game time:

1) How good are these Philadelphia Eagles? and 2) where are you going to watch the game?

Here’s what I know about the Philadelphia Eagles: They are a professional football team located in Philadelphia, nicknamed the City of Brotherly Love in the form of a Cheese Steak Sandwich. The two most famous Philly residents are Ben Franklin and Rocky Balboa, but not necessarily in that order.

The team itself won a lot of games this year despite losing its starting quarterback, which I am told was to injury. They didn’t just misplace him as I originally thought.

But enough with the X’s and O’s and all this inside football talk. What’s really important is figuring out where you will be at kickoff.

Assuming you are not attending the Super Bowl live in the land of snow and ice, you will need to find a place locally to catch the game. While some will watch at home, most will either attend a Super Bowl party with others or go out to a bar.

The advantage of watching the game in a bar is the unique experience of being around total strangers and, whenever the Pats make a great play, hugging and high-fiving these strangers with more sincere love than shown your own relatives at family gatherings.

On the other hand, if you will be attending a Super Bowl party, you must also decide what food to bring. Tradition has it that everyone brings a dish as an offering to the football gods. Also, to share with everyone else since gods are notoriously picky eaters and rarely touch any of it.

Which is fortunate, because the key to any successful Super Bowl party is the quantity of food. A rule of thumb is that for each person attending, there should be enough chicken wings and queso dip to feed three offensive linemen.

Once you have made a giant plate of food, poured yourself a drink, settle into your seat, and demonstrated your deep knowledge of the Pats’ opponent (“I’m pretty sure Philadelphia is in Pennsylvania”), you can watch knowing you’ve done all you could to prepare for the game.